Severus' reply Disclaimer-everything alluded to here is JKR's...
a/n: Yes, I've gone back to the Severus-game. A reply from Snape, with some quasi-ryhme. A bit more imagry to be sorted in this one

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When adders have fangs, no victims to smother...
They lash out to pierce the flesh of their brother...
None different from the other....

Lucius,

Those tales we often scoffed and scorned,
You mock me if you say I didn't hear,
And yet the ear turned away is yours.

Speak of souls more willing to be dragged
Down to darkness, return to torpid hells
By toll of bells you claim mighty title?

Called by a piercing in your forearm
For all you feel is on your skin
Nothing within to burn like mine.

Spying lillies upon the hill you think turns me weak
You've guessed me well, but time grows longer
I grow stronger by the withered embers.

I sway with fatal fire
You sway with poison
Niether more wronged.